Bathrooms
Ramadan Drain CleaningBathroom unclogging in Dasma
Unclogging one bathroom in Dasma starts by checking the drain itself and the first metre of pipe, because bathrooms in flats here sit close together and one can affect another. Dasma is an older residential area near Kuwait City, with tightly packed flats and short, narrow pipes.
Bathroom signs
Which fixture isthe cause.
Every fixture has its own trap and branch, and the symptom says which one.
01
Water rises in the shower
You flush and water appears in the shower tray or the floor drain. That means the blockage is past the point where those two meet, and not in the pan or the shower itself.
02
Only the basin runs slow
A slow basin with everything else in the same bathroom draining normally puts the problem in the basin trap or its short branch, and it is usually hair bound together with soap.
03
The pan empties slowly and refills
The pan empties slowly and the level climbs before it goes. That points to a blockage in the pan outlet itself or immediately after it, and it is most often wet wipes or cloth.
This area
What setsthis area apart
Dasma has older multi-storey apartment buildings, with one or two bathrooms per flat, and pipes running down from upper floors. A Dasma bathroom may share initial drainage with other fixtures from different parts of the flat before reaching the main riser. If only one bathroom is blocked while the kitchen and second toilet in the flat drain normally, the clog is confined to that single branch. We open the drain from the bathroom itself and work the short rods along the pipe until we clear it.
Dasma is an older residential area in Kuwait governorate, with tightly packed apartment buildings and small flats with short, narrow pipes.
Bathroom pipes in older Dasma apartment buildings are shorter and narrower than in villas, because the flat itself is smaller and the pipe does not run far before entering the main riser.
The bathroom, short
Bathroom work, short.
Service
Toilet, floor drain, basin and shower unclogging
First cause
Hair, soap, wet wipes and cloth
Method
A small electric snake on a flexible cable
No breaking up
Work goes through the existing openings only
Where it applies
Bathrooms in houses, flats, chalets and mosques
Hours
Daily, 6:00 in the morning to 12:00 midnight
How it works
From the fixtureto the branch.
Four steps, all inside the bathroom, with no floor opened.
We test the fixtures one by one
We run the basin, then the shower, then flush the pan, watching where the water shows each time. That order places the blockage exactly one point past the last fixture that behaved.
We lift the floor drain grating
The floor drain is the nearest access inside the room. We lift the grating, read the water level in its trap, and work into the branch from there without removing a single fixture.
The snake goes down the branch
The flexible cable feeds in and follows the bends of the short branch, and turning it winds hair and cloth onto the head so they come out rather than being pushed into the shared line.
We test every fixture together
Basin, shower and a flush all run at once, because that is the hardest moment the branch ever sees. If nothing rises at any opening, the job is finished.
Common questions
Questions about Bathroom unclogging in Dasma
The blockage is confined to that bathroom only and does not affect the others. We open the drain from inside and the rods clear it from there, even if the pipe is a bit narrow.
No problem at all. The pipe runs down from the bathroom to the riser, and the rods work the same way whether the flat is on the second floor or the fourth.
Other services
Other services in Dasma
Other work we do in the same area.